| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: "It was," groaned Frank, in answer.
For the first and last time in his life, Amyas Leigh stood
irresolute.
"Back, and stab her to the heart first!" said Frank, struggling to
escape from him.
Oh, if Amyas were but alone, and Frank safe home in England! To
charge the whole mob, kill her, kill Eustace, and then cut his way
back again to the ship, or die,--what matter? as he must die some
day,--sword in hand! But Frank!--and then flashed before his eyes
his mother's hopeless face; then rang in his ears his mother's last
bequest to him of that frail treasure. Let Rose, let honor, let
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Georgics by Virgil: With bleat of flocks and lowings thick resound
Rivers and parched banks and sloping heights.
At last in crowds she slaughters them, she chokes
The very stalls with carrion-heaps that rot
In hideous corruption, till men learn
With earth to cover them, in pits to hide.
For e'en the fells are useless; nor the flesh
With water may they purge, or tame with fire,
Nor shear the fleeces even, gnawed through and through
With foul disease, nor touch the putrid webs;
But, had one dared the loathly weeds to try,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: If it had been I," he added, "she would have made you accept it."
"Ah, I don't know!" Bernard exclaimed.
"I am sure of it," said Gordon earnestly--almost argumentatively.
"She 's an extraordinary woman."
"Keeping you good friends with me--that 's a great thing.
But it 's nothing to her keeping you good friends with
your wife."
Gordon looked at Bernard for an instant; then he fixed his eyes
for some time on the fire.
"Yes, that is the greatest of all things. A man should value his wife.
He should believe in her. He has taken her, and he should keep her--
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